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Peruvian Pariahs

7 March 1904

Manuel González Prada on a stamp

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anarquismoperu.noblogs.org

Anarchist ideas and publications circulated widely in Peru by the first decade of the 20th century. Manuel González Prada, an aristocrat and poet, and a handful of radical immigrant intellectuals based in Lima facilitated the dissemination of anarchist thought. Simultaneously, a nucleus of self-taught craftsmen inspired by the writings of Proudhon, Bakunin, Kropotkin and Malatesta, spearheaded a movement to organise workers based on anarcho-syndicalist doctrine. Anarcho-syndicalism would become the dominant radical ideology of Peru's fledgling labour movement. In March 1904, the first anarchist magazine appeared: Los Parias (The Pariahs).